Procurement Auctions with Capacity Reservation It frequently happens that a supplier needs to invest in building capacity prior supplying product. Then the buyer will need reserve from suppliers and pay for this advance of knowing final demand. “Capacity Games Supply Function Competition” by Edward Anderson, Bo Chen, Lusheng Shao studies very general version problem, which both production costs...

In a competitive market, customer decision is made to maximize his utility. It can be assumed that risk of losing a supply chain’s customer can be defined based on products utility from customer point of view. This paper takes account of product price and service level as competition criteria. The proposed model is based on non-cooperative game theory, for one-manufacturer and one-retailer supp...

today’s competition is promoted from firm against firm to supply chain versus supply chain, globalization and competition is a common phenomenon so each organization should make its supply chain as a weapon against the others, in doing so this paper presented a conceptual, graphical, step by step methodology to construct supply chain strategies by integrating strategic management’s theories, ap...

In this paper, we study the licensing of cost-reducing innovations in a duopoly under supply function competition. We show that innovator prefers fixed-fee to no if its cost advantage is not extremely large. Moreover, small, and mixed revenue-royalty licensing. This second result arises only because our assumption functions are quadratic. linear royalty payments per unit output, strictly also m...